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Add-In Solution for Mac Mini Late 2014. High-performance NVMe flash add-in solution, including tools & installation components.
Complete add-on kit with installation tools and components
- High performance for high demands
- Read speeds up to 808MB/s
- Write speeds up to 773MB/s
- Consumes less power and runs cooler
- Designed for macOS 10.13 and beyond
- NVMe – PCIe 3.1 x4
- 5-Year OWC Limited Warranty
Keep On Innovating
Tight deadlines, long nights, and terabytes of media – your Mac has been with you through it all. If storage is tight, there’s no reason to ditch the Mac you know and love. The Aura® Pro X2 SSD gives you up to 16 times more space and the speed to keep up with your imagination today and tomorrow. Upgrade your Mac with Aura Pro X2 SSD for a fraction of the cost of a new model and keep your Mac running for years.
Blazing Fast and Super Cool
Aura Pro X2 combines speed, stamina, and efficiency that will change the way you experience your Mac. With read speeds reaching 808MB/s and write speeds of 773MB/s, the 480GB Aura Pro X2 is up to twice as fast as the original SSDs, delivering performance on par with the latest models. It runs cooler and consumes less power than earlier SSD models, so you can run at peak for longer than ever.
Maintain Your Edge
When it’s go time, getting off the line and maintaining a high level of performance are equally important. Aura Pro X2 is engineered with advanced SLC caching, providing instant full-speed write acceleration, meaning those media projects and games stream fluidly and respond without lag time. You might even forget what that beachball looks like.
Continuous Compatibility
Aura Pro X2 is designed for the latest macOS versions (macOS High Sierra 10.13 and later), taking full advantage of the advanced features of APFS including: strong encryption, copy-on-write metadata, space sharing, cloning for files and directories, snapshots, fast directory sizing, atomic safe-save primitives, and improved file system fundamentals.
Right-Sized for Work and Play
The smaller stock SSDs for Mac can fill up quickly, especially with photo and video files, games, or even your email. Aura Pro X2 SSDs are available in capacities up to 2TB, giving you more space to work and play. Newly calibrated to use less power and run cooler, Aura Pro X2 is the best way to upgrade your PCIe equipped Mac.
No Hassles or Hacks Compatibility
Aura Pro X2 PCIe-based flash storage upgrades are precisely engineered for your Mac laptop, so you'll never need to compromise your data by relying on complicated software hacks or TRIM-enablers to get the most from your upgrade. Just install, migrate your data, and enjoy the great performance of flash storage with up to 16 times the capacity of the factory-installed drive.
7% Over Provisioning
OWC SSDs perform maintenance tasks in the background that optimize the health, performance, and endurance of your flash drive. These jobs take advantage of available, unwritten areas on the SSD. Aura Pro X2 PCIe-based flash storage reserves 7% of the overall capacity as free space. Always. With this allocated free space, Aura SSDs can perform these normal maintenance tasks making your drive more stable, dependable, and ultimately a safer place to store your data.
Quality That Lasts
Aura Pro X2 SSDs are proudly designed in Austin and are backed by a lifetime of free, award-winning customer support.
Includes
- (1) OWC Aura Pro X2 Solid-State Drive
- (1) Torx T5 Driver
- (1) Torx T6S Driver
- (1) Nylon Pry Tool (Spudger)
- (3) Installation Components
- (1) Installation Guide for Mac Mini (2014)
- 5-Year OWC Limited Warranty
- Capacities: 240GB/500GB/1TB/2TB
- Data Redundancy and Error Correction: 16GB Allocated to real-time data redundancy and error correction
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Drive Mechanism: (1) OWC Aura Pro X2 PCIe 3.1 NVMe Solid-State Drive
- *OWC reserves the right to replace or upgrade to equivalent or better components.
- Drive Format: Unformatted
- Controller: Silicon Motion SM2262EN Series Processor with 7% over-provisioning
- NAND Flash Components: Synchronous Triple-Level Cell (TLC) 3D NAND Flash
- Native Command Queuing (NCQ): Up to 32 simultaneous commands
- Form Factor: Custom Blade
- Drive Interface: PCIe 3.1 x4, NVMe 1.3
- Sequential Read (Max): Up to 2979 MB/s
- Sequential Write (Max): Up to 1219 MB/s
- Average Access Time: <0.1 ms
- MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures): 1,500,000 hours
- TRIM Support: OS Dependent
- Error Correction: Built-in ECC
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Endurance:
- 240GB: 150TB total bytes written (TBW), equal to 59 GB per day for 7 years
- 500GB/1TB/2TB: 1000TB total bytes written (TBW), equal to 392 GB per day for 7 years
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Power Consumption:
- Read Mode (Max): Up to 5.7 Watts
- Write Mode (Max): Up to 5.7 Watts
- Seek Mode (Max): Up to 5.7 Watts
- Idle Mode (Max): Up to 0.3 Watts
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Dimensions:
- Height: 0.3 cm (0.1 in)
- Length: 8.9 cm (3.5 in)
- Width: 2.2 cm (0.9 in)
- Weight: 8.0 g (0.02 lbs)
- RoHS Compliant: Yes
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Ambient Temperature:
- Operating: 32°F to 158°F (0°C to 70°C)
- Non-Operating: -40°F to 185°F (-40°C to 85°C)
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Altitude:
- Operating: -304.8 m to 3,048.0 m (-1,000 ft to 10,000 ft)
- Non-Operating: -304.8 m to 12,192.0 m (-1,000 ft to 40,000 ft)
- Humidity: Operating: 5% to 95% non-condensing
- Shock: Non-Operating: 1500 G max at 0.5 ms
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Noise:
- Idle (Typical): 0.0 bels
- Seek (Typical): 0.0 bels
- Standby Mode Issue: Some customers have reported an issue related to Apple NVMe resources that occurs when attempting to wake some Mac models from "Standby Mode" (a lesser known macOS "Sleep" behavior). Please review the support article “NVMe SSDs: Standby Mode” if you experience this issue.
- OS Update Requirement: The host computer must be updated over an Apple factory SSD to the latest OS available - here before installing this drive.
- Boot Time Note: When upgrading from an AHCI SSD used in some older Mac models (2013-2014), you may observe a slight increase in boot times. Please read the support article "Aura Pro X2, Aura N SSDs: Boot Times" to learn more.
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Mac OS Compatibility:
- macOS 14.x Sonoma
- macOS 13.x Ventura
- macOS 12.x Monterey
- macOS 11.x Big Sur
- macOS 10.15 Catalina
- macOS 10.14 Mojave
- macOS 10.13 High Sierra
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Mac mini Models:
- Mac mini (Late 2014) (October 2014) Model ID: Macmini7,1 - A1347 - EMC 2840 | 1.4GHz, 2.6GHz, 2.8GHz, 3.0GHz